Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.